New guidelines around involuntary care are receiving criticism from those who advocate for drug users and their families ...

A group that has been fighting to improve access to opioid agonist therapy for decades has filed a complaint with the BC ...

While some family doctors or emergency departments will prescribe OAT to patients for free, most family doctors are hesitant ...

But two years into the trial, drug users in Vancouver are still dying ... a scientist with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, the organisation tasked with monitoring the drug trial.

British Columbia clinicians have received new guidance about involuntary care for people who use drugs, which includes ...

PreVenture, a drug prevention program that began in Montreal, has been found to reduce the risk of substance use disorders in teens by offering them tools and strategies to cope with personality ...

Haertel grew up in Kamloops and graduated from the culinary program and Thompson Rivers University before moving to Vancouver ...

The guidance from Dr. Daniel Vigo, B.C.'s first chief scientific adviser for psychiatry, is aimed at helping clinicians and others decide when involuntary admission is appropriate for people with both ...

A Campbell River-area First Nation has declared a state of emergency in response to the “escalating” opioid crisis in the ...

While B.C.'s 2025 budget nodded towards work already underway on involuntary treatment, it did not lay out any specific new ...

Conservative Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Elenore Sturko says the changes do not deal with underlying addiction issues ...

Vancouver, Canada ... With this focus, the Company is currently engaged in the following drug development programs based on THC and/or non-psychoactive cannabidiol: SCI-110 for the treatment of ...